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03 Aug 2015 7:38:47am

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I've worked in a situation where phone calls from Buckingham Palace were part of the job. Unless you have worked in that situation, you really cannot understand now much it is emphasised that you do not question it if they call on you, and how important it is to maintain confidentiality. This is a very old-fashioned idea here; we are irreverent about our government and the monarchy, but things are quite different in the UK. At the very least that poor nurse was held up to ridicule around the world, plus she had betrayed not only the hospitals rules about confidentiality and her training and work colleagues, but her monarch as well. That she was tricked is irrelevant; she had broken a cardinal rule about serving the Royal Family. She would never have been trusted again. How much her background and personal life would have influenced her, who knows, but she would have felt she failed her family as well as her employer and her country.Whether she really wanted to kill herself, or was just looking for some peace and quiet, we are unlikely to ever know. Either way its tragic that someone died for a few more thousand advertising dollars, a few ratings points and a few cheap laughs.